Legal notes 2: The Death Note murders?
Anime News Network picks up a story from a Belgian tabloid reporting that two identical messages linked to Death Note were left near severed body parts discovered Friday in the forest of Belgium's...
Legal update: Michael George arraigned
Another chapter in the legal story that has shocked the comics world this week, as Pittsburgh Comic-con organizer Michael George was arraigned for first degree murder, felony firearm, insurance fraud and obtaining money under...
Disney wins long, bitter Pooh battle
The Walt Disney company has emerged victorious in a 16-year court battle over the rights to Winnie the Pooh. A California appellate court upheld an earlier ruling that threw out the case filed by...
Everybody’s Zuda-ing it
Believe it or not, we still haven't had time to read the Zuda contracts.But lots of other people have! Johanna has an excellent summary of opinion so far, she catches Chris Butcher's dire warnings
It’s...
Legal update: Superboy, Superman
Jeff Trexler does the heavy lifting of updating court motions on the Superboy copyright case. Among items of note: director Bryan Singer is to be deposed, and Jim Steranko and Mark Evanier have...
Facts emerge in fired teacher/EIGHTBALL case
The New Haven Register weighs in with actual news story about the story of Connecticut teacher Nathan Fisher who resigned after parents complained about him giving a 13-year-old a mature reader comic to read....
Porn comic revealed…..EIGHTBALL!
UPDATE: Based on the news video at the below link, it appears that the issue in questions was EIGHTBALL #22, shown at left. I had originally put a picture of Eightball #2 in this...
Teacher assigns “lewd” comic
Many questions are raised by this brief news story out of Guilford, CT about a teacher who is accused of giving a freshman student a pornographic comic:
The 14-year old student told her mother he...
Ellison/Groth: The love is still strong
LIke a hand emerging from a freshly dug grave, enmity has arisen in the once thought settled Harlan Ellison/Fantagraphics lawsuit. The problem: the mediated settlement's stricture that Ellison post a 500-word rebuttal by Groth...
A little more on The Lawsuit
Brave Canadian Don McPherson offers some commentary on the Ellison/Fantagraphics settlement:
But there’s no denying this one is outside of the norm. As I read the settlement details online last week, I was struck by...
Ellison/Groth settlement released
You boys play nice now.
Here you go. At long last the Ellison/Fantagraphics settlement agreement. Basically everyone agrees not to say nasty things about each other any more, Ellison's interview is removed from future...
Gordon Lee case delayed until November
While we can all agree that the Gordon Lee case should never have happened -- surely the trauma of seeing a small drawing of a normal penis is less upsetting to the two young...
